The Great Detectives: The puzzle form that became literature

The detective story is the youngest major genre — Poe invented it in 1841. Here are the sleuths and puzzles that built it: Holmes, Dupin, Father Brown, and the golden age of the clue.

In this collection

• The Messenger
• Black Venn
• Dead Man's Plack
• The Seeder
• The Adventure Of Elizabeth Morey, of New York
• The Dog Star
• The Adventure of the Creeping Man
• The Man with the Gash
• Odd Man Out
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Unpardonable Sin
• Moxon's Master
• Mandarin's Jade
• Red Money
• No Hero
• The Kidnapped President
• Three Evenings in the House
• Outside the Door
• Kate Plus 10
• The Eye of Osiris
• The Mystery of Old Daddy's Window
• The Countess Goerlitz
• The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
• The Ash-Tree
• Heart of the World
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